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Birmingham

The second largest city in the UK, which is located in West Midlands; it is home to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, a superhospital built under a PFI contract.
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Julian Lloyd Webber, principal, Birmingham Conservatoire; Graham Allen, trustee, Birmingham Museums Trust
BMAG 130th birthday event
FIVE ENCORES TO DYNAMIC MOTION: Birmingham Conservatoire.
PULLOUT & KEEP GUIDE
I think this team has more talent than any team I've ever had at Birmingham,'' coach Ed Croson said.
IT'S A TALE OF TWO TEAMS WEST VALLEY SHOULD COME DOWN TO TAFT, BIRMINGHAM
Shortly after the ban, Shuttlesworth proposed the holding of a mass meeting to see if blacks in Birmingham wanted to organize to fight for their rights.
Black Baptist women and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1963: historians and journalists during and immediately after the Civil Rights Movement emphasized the role of religion in the movement. They showed how the black church and its leaders provided the charisma, finance, inspiration, spiritual nurture, and the foot soldiers that made the movement successful
The Nucor CEO also indicated that current Birmingham president and former Nucor executive John Correnti would not be invited to remain part of the resulting combined management team.
Birmingham headed into Nucor fold. (Scrap Industry News)
In April 1963, five months before the girls' deaths, King and other civil rights leaders brought their nonviolent protests to Birmingham.
Justice delayed: four black girls died in a 1963 bombing in racially divided Birmingham. Now the last suspect is about to go on trial. (times past)
Birmingham Royal Ballet had the advantage of appearing in its own large theater in the center of Birmingham, whereas the Royal Ballet is homeless until the Covent Garden opera house reopens at the end of 1999.
Royal Ballet, Barbican Theatre, London, June 15-20, 1998; Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham, England, June 3-7, 1998
We have always been portrayed as being culturally intolerant, but here in Birmingham we've had things like gay parades and the annual Apollo drag ball for years without an incident.
You can go home again
You walk through powerful displays that evoke the period of segregation, with everything from an iron ore mine and Ku Klux Klan rallies to a burned bus, a lunch counter and a Birmingham jail cell.
Meeting the past in Alabama
Unfortunately, the success story for business in Birmingham has not mirrored the African-American companies.
A measure of profits
If he lost the upcoming campaign to end segregation in placid but booming Birmingham, his position as the most prominent Negro civil rights leader would be eroded, perhaps destroyed-and so would his chance to become (his private goal) the most influential Negro in world history, with the unlimited power, fame, and access to attractive, willing civil-rights workers that would entail.
Muddying the waters; the years of Martin Luther King
Bank of Birmingham has more than 800 shareholders, most of whom are from the Birmingham/Bloomfield community.
Birmingham Bloomfield Bancshares, Inc. Completes IPO; Raises $18.0 Million

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